Global COE leader – Additive Manufacturing CTO office at Schneider Electric USA, Inc in FRANKLIN, Tennessee

Job Description:

The Global COE leader is responsible for identifying and forecasting technology trends, developing technology roadmaps, and driving alignment with strategic business in the area of Additive Manufacturing. This includes but is not limited to: Working with supply chain leaders, service team leaders, as well as the global network of advanced manufacturing resources distributed in the HUB's to prove business cases for the local and Global levels. The successful candidate will lead these activities for the global business and must be highly effective at collaboration with experts globally and be able to influence and convince executive business decision makers across business units globally.

What will you do?

• Partner with global business stakeholders to identify and understand key trends both short and long-term and tie them to strategic, technology, and business initiatives


• Successfully lead through influence both a virtual team and a direct team of Additive manufacturing experts.


• Defines Additive Manufacturing transformation, strategies, and capabilities.


• Develop both internal and external networks for Additive Manufacturing technology watch and Implementation.


• Manage the global network of Additive Manufacturing across all Hubs.


• Create and leverage external relationships for benchmarking and advancing approaches to Additive Manufacturing. This includes identifying emerging science, technology, and/or capabilities that provide opportunity or present a threat to the business.


• Develop and manage strategic partnerships globally including technology (i.e. national laboratory, consultant, think tank, industry organization, trade association, etc) and university relationships.


• Ensure tight collaboration across businesses and geographies aligning Additive Manufacturing to the local business cases.


• Drive execution of Additive Manufacturing road map leveraging global expertise and global technology partnerships


• Develop communication and presentation materials to tell compelling stories in support of Additive Manufacturing technology program investments including defining investment needs and targeted outcomes.


• Participates as a member of due diligence team for potential mergers and/or acquisitions and to partner with the Legal team for technology and IP assessment.

• Bachelors degree required. Advanced degree preferred.


• Ability to influence and convince


• Strong communication skills. The ability to convey technical topics in easy to understand terms for business leaders is a must. The ability to clearly communicate technical subjects and analytic results to non-expert/non-technical peers and leadership is required.


• Ability to motivate and lead others.


• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners. This includes working with global teams, across time zones. Integrating teams across multiple business units and managing a geographically dispersed workforce.


• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with government, regulatory, private industry leaders, professional personnel, and a variety of people at all management levels.


• Intellectual curiosity - awareness of emerging trends and competitive activity. Pasion to learn new, unfamiliar subjects or systems


• Skilled in strategic planning, goal setting, and creating compelling business cases for exploration and proof-of-concept technology demonstration projects.


• Ability to identify new opportunities, drive clarity, create focus, and make tough decisions in complex and dynamic contexts


• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, global matrix environment.


• Ability to maintain a very high level of discretion and confidentiality.


• Analytical mind with problem solving aptitude


• Organizational and leadership skills


• Ability to lead and align cross-functional and geographically dispersed team discussions on topics with a high level of uncertainty and ambiguity while using influence to drive alignment and consensus.

Let us learn about you! Apply today.

Why us?

Schneider Electric is leading the digital transformation of energy management and automation. Our technologies enable the world to use energy in a safe, efficient and sustainable manner. We strive to promote a global economy that is both ecologically viable and highly productive.

€25.7bn global revenue

137 000+ employees in 100+ countries

45% of revenue from IoT

5% of revenue devoted for R&D

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What will you do?

• Partner with global business stakeholders to identify and understand key trends both short and long-term and tie them to strategic, technology, and business initiatives


• Successfully lead through influence both a virtual team and a direct team of Additive manufacturing experts.


• Defines Additive Manufacturing transformation, strategies, and capabilities.


• Develop both internal and external networks for Additive Manufacturing technology watch and Implementation.


• Manage the global network of Additive Manufacturing across all Hubs.


• Create and leverage external relationships for benchmarking and advancing approaches to Additive Manufacturing. This includes identifying emerging science, technology, and/or capabilities that provide opportunity or present a threat to the business.


• Develop and manage strategic partnerships globally including technology (i.e. national laboratory, consultant, think tank, industry organization, trade association, etc) and university relationships.


• Ensure tight collaboration across businesses and geographies aligning Additive Manufacturing to the local business cases.


• Drive execution of Additive Manufacturing road map leveraging global expertise and global technology partnerships


• Develop communication and presentation materials to tell compelling stories in support of Additive Manufacturing technology program investments including defining investment needs and targeted outcomes.


• Participates as a member of due diligence team for potential mergers and/or acquisitions and to partner with the Legal team for technology and IP assessment.